Ausanio and CCSU Both Finish Day One at NEC Championships in Fourth Place

Apr 23, 2010

Freshman Anna
Ausanio led the way on Friday as the Central Connecticut
women's golf team finished first round action at the Northeast
Conference Championships in fourth place out of 10 teams. Ausanio
is currently in fourth place on the leader board after shooting 78
on the par 72 Champions Gate Golf Course in Orlando, FL.

CCSU shot 332 as a team on Friday. The Blue Devils are two
strokes back of third place Fairleigh Dickinson and four back of
second place Sacred Heart. Long Island leads the three day
tournament with a first round score of 318. The Blackbirds'
Natalie Desjardins and Andrea Staudacher lead the individual
leaderboard, each carding 76 on the day.

Each of the three other scoring CCSU players shot 86 or under on
Friday. Junior Chelsea Woods is currently
tied for 14th place after finishing in 83 during first round
action. Senior Natalie Jones and freshman
Stephanie
Bednar are within one stroke of each other as the Blue Devils'
third and fourth top scorers on the day. Jones shot 85 and is tied
for 18th, while Bednar finished in 86 and is currently tied for
21st in the tournament.

Central Connecticut and the other nine teams in competition will
finish the tournament on Saturday and Sunday to determine this
year's Northeast Conference Champion.